Materials

Preparation

Research cooking classes available at your school or in your community. Ask your school’s guidance counselor to speak to the students about opportunities to learn to cook.

Access Quizlet vocabulary list. Print large single-sided cards onto cardstock and cut apart. Make enough sets so there is one set for each group of 4-5 students.

Print a glossary of vocabulary words for each student.

Choose and purchase, if necessary, a cooking show for students to view.

Chopped Junior or Worst Cooks in America are all good options because they have several cooks preparing several dishes, demonstrating a wide variety of cooking techniques. They are also encouraging to students because contestants are amateurs. They also have several segments making it easy to play only as much as your class has time for.

Introduction

The video calls for more cooking classes and financial literacy classes. Have you taken those classes?

Today we will focus on basic cooking terms

How can cooking skills improve your life?

Input

Distribute a set of vocabulary cards to each group of 4-5 students and have them match pairs.

Ask students to raise their hands when they have matched the whole set. To check, set aside pairs that do not match and ask them to re-match.

Collect all of the cards and play Vocabulary Popcorn

Deal one deck of cards out to the whole class.

One student reads one of their cards and turns it over.

The student with the matching card reads it and turns it over, then reads another card.

This continues until the class has worked through the whole deck.

Time the students to encourage them to improve their score.

Distribute a glossary for the students to keep as a guide.

Show an episode or portion of an episode of a cooking show. Students should highlight cooking terms they see listed. Pause frequently to discuss.

Play another round of vocabulary popcorn, encouraging students to best their original time.

Assessment

As a class, students should improve their Popcorn Vocabulary time and accurately identify cooking terms demonstrated in the show. Students can be quizzed on their vocabulary understanding by using a generated quiz from Quizlet.